A Level S.O.W. M. Nichols SCIE, 2011-12
SCHEME OF WORK FOR A LEVEL HISTORY – PAPER 5 (THE HISTORY OF THE USA c1840-1968)
FIRST TOPIC: I. WESTWARD EXPANSION AND THE TAMING OF THE WEST (c.1840-96) TIME: 4 WEEKS
THEME / ASPECT / CONTENT & AIMS / RESOURCES / TIME / ASSES. / HWK.1. The Doctrine of Manifest Destiny
/ a. Geographical & Political Background
Basic Terms / Ø Map of states and geography
Ø Diagram of US constitution
Ø Glossary of terms / Text:Brogan:map 1 & 4
Glossary & Blank Maps
Booklet (MN) / Semester 1
Week 1 / Timed Essay Tests to be part of continuous assess. criteria along with tests on other themes (= 4 tests in total of 40% weighting of S1 final grade; EST exam = 60%)
All lessons will include ‘starters’ as a way of reinforcing including: splatt, historical- hangman, spelling bee, word searches, etc.
Plenary Exercises / Complete
Maps & Glossary
b. American Colonial thinking / Ø Colonial attitudes summarized
Ø Differences between the WASP and Hispanic/Gallic approach / ‘ACW & Its Origins: 1846-61’ Alan Farmer
‘Penguin History of the USA’ Hugh Brogan / Week 1
c. Doctrine of ‘Manifest Destiny’ / Ø Ideology or Excuse?
Ø The Real Motives behind US expansionism / Booklet (MN) / Week 1
2. Wars and Conquests
/ a. The Annexation of Texas / Ø Reasons
Ø Nature – ‘Myth versus Reality’
Ø Discussion of film, ‘The Alamo’
Ø Consequences / Booklet (MN)
‘The Alamo’ (film clips)
‘American History’ by Farmer & Sanders / Week 2
b. War with Mexico / Ø Causes
Ø Nature
Ø Consequences / Booklet (MN)
Maps
http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/testmaps/maps.htm / Week 2 / Complete booklet exercises
3. Westward Expansion
/ a. Mormons & Utah / Ø Mormon beliefs
Ø Brigham Young
Ø Salt Lake City
Ø Opposition / Booklet (MN)
Maps
Internet Site:
www.wwnorton.com/america6 / Week 2
b. The Oregon Expansion / Ø Mountain Men
Ø The Pioneer Trails & Means
Ø Settlement in the North-West / Booklet (MN)
Maps / Week 2
c. The Railroads / Ø Significance of the railroads: social, economic and political / Booklet (MN)
Maps / Week 3
d. Native Americans / Ø Culture and Tribes
Ø Impact of whites
Ø Why Natives defeated / Booklet (MN)
Maps / Week 3 / Complete Mix &
Matches
e. Forty-Niners and California / Ø Gold rush of 1849
Ø How California became a state / Booklet (MN)
Maps / Week 4
f. The 1850 Compromise / Ø Terms of the Kansas-Nebraska settlement and its implications / Booklet (MN)
Maps / Week 4
g. The Wild West – Myth and Reality / Ø Compare and Contrast traditional & revisionist images / Clips of 1950s & modern Western films / Week 4
h. The Later West / Ø Summary of Inventions
Ø End of the Frontier (Turner)
Ø Why Wild West ended / Booklet (MN)
Maps
Internet / Week 4 / Study for Test
A Level S.O.W. M. Nichols SCIE, 2011-12
SCHEME OF WORK FOR A LEVEL HISTORY – PAPER 5 (THE HISTORY OF THE USA c1840-1968)
THIRD TOPIC: III. CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION (1861-1877) TIME: 5 WEEKS
THEME / ASPECT / CONTENT & AIMS / RESOURCES / TIME / ASSES / HWK1. The Civil War
(1861-1865)
/ a. The Sides / Ø Map of states involved
Ø Strengths
Ø Weaknesses / Tracing paper
Booklet (MN)
Maps
http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/testmaps/maps.htm / Semester 1
Weeks 10-12 / Timed test essays (part of cont. assess.
weighting procedure- set four essays in S1; total weighting = 40%, i.e. each essay is worth 10% of final grade; EST = 60%)
All lessons will include ‘starters’ as a way of reinforcing including: splatt, historical- hangman, spelling bee, word searches, etc.
Plenary Exercises
b. The Leadership / Ø Abraham Lincoln
Ø Jefferson Davis / Booklet (MN)
Feature film: ‘Lincoln’ / Table to fill in
c. The Border States / Ø Kansas
Ø Missouri / Booklet (MN)
Maps
d. The Military Aspects / Ø The nature of the armies
Ø Campaigns & Battles
Ø 54th Massachusetts Regt. / Feature film: ‘Glory’
Booklet (MN)
Maps
e. The Europeans / Ø British attitudes
Ø Diplomatic initiatives / Booklet (MN)
Maps
f. The Emancipation Proclamation / Ø Why passed by Lincoln
Ø Consequences / Booklet (MN)
Maps
g. The Confederate State / Ø Weaknesses of political system / Booklet (MN)
h. Wartime Union politics / Ø Civil liberties
Ø 1864 elections / Booklet (MN)
‘Gangs of New York’
i. Grant & Lee / Ø Comparisons and Contrasts / https://marknicholshistory.wikispaces.com / Table to fill in
j. Why did the South lose? / Ø Reasons for Confederate failure / Spider diagram
2. Reconstruction (1865-1877)
/ a. Effects of the War / Ø Comparison bt. North & South / Table to fill in / Week 13-14
b. Reconstruction / Ø Lincoln and Johnson’s programs
Ø Congressional attitudes
Ø Impeachment of Johnson / Booklet (MN)
‘American History’ Farmer & Sanders
c. Effects of Reconstruction / Ø On blacks
Ø On White Southerners
Ø The Younger-James gang / Booklet (MN)
Hugh Brogan: ‘The Penguin History of the US’ / Compare & Contrasts
table
d. Grant’s Presidency / Ø New emphases
Ø Policies towards blacks / Booklet (MN)
e. End of Reconstruction / Ø Reinstatement of status quo in the South? / Booklet (MN)
A Level S.O.W. M. Nichols SCIE, 2011-12
SCHEME OF WORK FOR A LEVEL HISTORY – PAPER 5 (THE HISTORY OF THE USA c1840-1968)
SIXTH TOPIC: VI. CIVIL RIGHTS (1895-1968) TIME: 5 WEEKS
THEME / ASPECT / CONTENT & AIMS / RESOURCES / TIME / ASSES / HWK1. The Position of Blacks in 1900
/ a. Black Approaches / Ø Condition of Blacks in 1900
Ø Washington v. Du Bois / Booklet (MN) / Semester 2
Week 11 / Timed test essays (part of continuous assess.
weighting procedure; set four essays in S2; total weighting = 40%, i.e. each essay is worth 10% of final grade; Mock = 60%)
All lessons will include ‘starters’ as a way of reinforcing including: splatt, historical- hangman, spelling bee, word searches, etc.
Plenary Exercises / Research on early leaders
b. NAACP / Ø Aims and Achievements
Ø Weaknesses and failures / Booklet (MN)
2. WWI and Black People
/ a. Black Soldiers / Ø Experiences in army
Ø Achievements on Western front / Booklet (MN) / Week 12
b. Black Civilians / Ø Experiences on Home Front
3. Racism
/ a. The KKK / Ø Origins
Ø Aims and Actions
Ø Revival / Booklet (MN)
b. The South / Ø Jim Crow, etc.
c. The North / Ø Nature of discrimination
Ø Which was worse: North or South?
4. The 1930s and 40s
/ a. The New Deal / Ø How did Roosevelt affect blacks? / Booklet (MN)
Clip from ‘American Me’ / Week 13
b. WWII / Ø What was the role of blacks?
Ø ‘Zoot suit’ riots
5. The Fight for Civil Rights
/ a. Schools / Ø The Brown Case / Booklet (MN) Excerpts of
Feature Films:
‘Malcolm X’
‘Mississippi Burning’
& Sam Cooke’s music / Week 14
b. Martin Luther King Jnr. / Ø Biography of King
Ø Non –Violent tactics
c. Violent action / Ø Malcolm X, Carmichael, Cleaver
Ø Black Muslims
Ø Black Panthers / Table of comparing
MX & MLK
6. Achievements and Tragedies
/ a. Legal Progress / Ø Civil rights Acts/24th Amendment / Booklet (MN)
Obituaries of Rosa Parks / Week 15
b. Violence / Ø Assassinations
Ø Riots – Watts, etc. / www.dailytelegraph.co.uk
c. Native Americans & Other Minorities / Ø Civil rights of Indians
Ø Civil rights of Chinese, etc.
d. The Overall Bill / Ø Assessment of the struggle
A Level S.O.W. M. Nichols SCIE, 2011-12
SCHEME OF WORK FOR A LEVEL HISTORY – PAPER 5 (THE HISTORY OF THE USA c1840-1968)
SECOND TOPIC: II SOURCEWORK: THE ORIGINS OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR (1846-1861) TIME: 5 WEEKS
THEME / ASPECT, AIMS & CONTENT / RESOURCES / TIME / ASSES. / HWK1. The Question of Slavery
/ Ø Debate over slavery – pro and abolitionist viewpoints
Ø Debate over extension of slavery into new states
Ø Compromise solutions like the Mason-Dixie line / ‘The American Civil War & Its Origins 1848-65’ Alan Farmer
Booklet (MN) / Semester 1
Week 5 / Timed test essays (part of cont
assess.
weighting procedure; set four essays in S1; total weighting = 40%, i.e. each essay is worth 10% of final grade; EST = 60%)
All lessons will include ‘starters’ as a way of reinforce.
includ: splatt, historical- hangman, spelling bee, word searches, etc.
Plenary Exercises
2. States’ Rights
/ Ø Debate on whether states had the right to secede
Ø Views of states rightists and unionists
Ø The Constitution – was it flawed? / Booklet (MN) / Week 6
3. The Economic Divide
/ Ø Mutually exclusive economic systems – incompatible?
Ø Diagramatic and graphical representations of the economic systems / Booklet (MN)
Graphs
Statistics / Week 7 / Create graphs on North-South divide
4. The Leading Protagonists
/ Ø Biographies and roles of major figures including: Clay, Calhoun, Douglas, Seward, Buchanan and Lincoln
Ø Fill in biographical details on pre-War presidents and their culpability for the events of 1861-65 / Booklet (MN) / Week 7 / Finish papers for Hwk
5. The Key Crises
/ Ø 1848-50
Ø 1860-1861
Ø Could War have broken out before 1861? / Booklet (MN) / Week 9
6. The Historiography
/ Ø Traditional Views
Ø Revisionist views / Booklet (MN) / Week 9
7. Practice Papers
/ Ø Go over source techniques
Ø Practice past papers
Ø Timed test essays / UCLES Past papers
www.teachers.cie.org.uk
www.students.cie.org.uk / Week 9-10
A Level S.O.W. M. Nichols SCIE, 2011-12
SCHEME OF WORK FOR GCE LEVEL HISTORY – PAPER 5 (THE HISTORY OF THE USA c1840-1968)
FIFTH TOPIC: V BOOM AND BUST (1920-1941) TIME: 7 WEEKS
THEME / ASPECT / CONTENT & AIMS / RESOURCES / TIME / ASSES / HWK1. The Post-War Reaction
/ a. Against Internationalism / Ø Reasons for US isolationism
Ø Attitudes towards League of Nations / Booklet (MN) / Semester 2
Week 1 / Timed test essays (part of continuous assess.
weighting procedure; set four essays in S2; total weighting = 40%, i.e. each essay is worth 10% of final grade; Mock = 60%)
All lessons will include ‘starters’ as a way of reinforcing including: splatt, historical- hangman, spelling bee, word searches, etc.
Plenary Exercises / Why US stayed out of LEAGUE
b. Against Progressivism / Ø Reasons for new conservatism
c. Election of Republicans / Ø Harding/Coolidge and their ethos
2. Prohibition
/ a. Motives / Ø Why prohibition passed / Booklet (MN)
‘The Untouchables’ feature film / Week 2
b. Nature / Ø Gangsterism
Ø Corruption
c. Impact / Ø Criminalisation of USA
3. The 1920s Boom
/ a. Society / Ø Culture: Music, Dance, Fashion / Booklet (MN)
‘The Great Gatsby’ feature film / Week 3
b. Economy / Ø Investment
Ø Industry and Farming
Ø Financial Scandals
Ø Bigotry & Prejudice
4. The Great Depression
/ a. Causes / Ø Overproduction
Ø Innate Poverty
Ø Credit systems
Ø Protectionism / Booklet (MN)
Flow diagrams to explain causation of Great Depression
Feature film: ‘The Grapes of Wrath’
Encourage students to read Steinbeck / Week 4-5 / Complete flow diagrams
b. Nature / Ø Unemployment
Ø Homelessness
Ø Internal Migration
Ø Bankruptcies
c. Impact / Ø Hoovervilles
Ø Riots, Marches and Strikes
Ø Danger of revolution?
5. The New Deal
/ a. Purpose & Aims / Ø ‘Nothing to fear, but fear itself’ / Booklet (MN) / Week 9
b. Nature / Ø Various bodies that were created: CCC, AAA, NRA, WPA, / Mix/Match Exercises
c. Opposition / Ø Supreme Court, etc.
6. Assessment of the New Deal
/ a. Positives / Ø Alleviation of suffering / Booklet (MN) / Week 10
b. Negatives / Ø Did it conquer unemployment?
c. Role of WWII / Ø The real cure for the Depression?
SCHEME OF WORK FOR GCE LEVEL HISTORY – PAPER 5 (THE HISTORY OF THE USA c1840-1968)
FOURTH TOPIC: IV. THE USA’S RISE AS A WORLD POWER (1890-1945) TIME: 4 WEEKS
THEME / ASPECT / CONTENT & AIMS / RESOURCES / TIME / ASSES. / HWK1. The Rise of US Imperialism
/ a. The Old Myth / Ø Debunk idea America was not an imperialist nation / Blank Maps of World / Semester 1
Week 14 / Timed test essays (part of continuous assess.
weighting procedure; set four essays in S1; total weighting = 40%, i.e. each essay is worth 10% of final grade; EST = 60%)
All lessons will include ‘starters’ as a way of reinforcing including: splatt, historical- hangman, spelling bee, word searches, etc.
Plenary Exercises / Map of US colonies
b. 1898 / Ø Annexation of Spanish empire: Cuba, Puerto Rico & the Philippines / Maps of Americas
Feature Film: ‘The Rough Riders’
c. The Canal / Ø Control over Panama and motives behind it / Booklet (MN)
d. Teddy Roosevelt / Ø Roosevelt’s Policies / Booklet (MN)
2. US and WWI
/ a. 1914-17 / Ø Neutrality and reasons behind it / Booklet (MN) / Week 15
b. 1917-1918 / Ø Reasons for entry into WWI
Ø US contribution to victory
Ø Effects of War on US incl. debts and reparations / Booklet (MN)
c. Woodrow Wilson / Ø The Fourteen Points
Ø Versailles
Ø The League of Nations / Booklet (MN)
3. Post-WWI Policy
/ a. Isolationism / Ø Rejection of Versailles
Ø Refusal to join League of Nations / Booklet (MN) / Week 16
b. Neutrality / Ø Washington Conferences
Ø Kellog-Briand Pact
Ø Dawes and Young Plans / Booklet (MN) / Table to fill in on confers.
4. FDR’s Policy
/ a. Partial Isolationism / Ø ‘Good neighbour’ policy
Ø Policy in the Far East / Booklet (MN) / Week 17
b. WWII / Ø Neutrality acts
Ø Lend-Lease
Ø War with Japan and Germany
Ø US contribution to victory / Booklet (MN)
Feature Film: ‘Pearl Harbor’
5. Post-WWII
Policy
/ a. Wartime Conferences / Ø Yalta
Ø Potsdam
Ø San Francisco & UNO / Booklet (MN) / Week 17
b. The First Superpower / Ø The USA in 1945 / Booklet (MN)
SCHEME OF WORK FOR GCE LEVEL HISTORY – PAPER 5 (THE HISTORY OF THE USA c1840-1968)